All IDFA articles – Page 6
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Reviews‘Housewitz’: IDFA Review
Intimate portrait of prison camp survivor Lous Hoogendijk-De Jong, who hasn’t left her home in years
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Reviews‘Turn Your Body To The Sun’: IDFA Review
A woman attempts to retrace the steps of her Soviet soldier father who was captured by the Nazis
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Reviews‘Eat Your Catfish’: IDFA Review
Inside the life of Kathryn, locked into a fixed position due to ALS but never static
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NewsNeon’s Elissa Federoff talks ‘Memoria’ roadshow and flexible release patterns
Federoff was talking via Zoom at the International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA).
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FeaturesAre the gatekeepers of the international feature doc sector brave and inclusive enough?
“We’re ready for the ‘giving up space’ phase,” says one producer.
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NewsRising Palestine-UK director developing ‘Soon We Will All Be History Here’ with Jordanian Film Fund
Saeed Taji Farouky’s doc feature ’A Thousand Fiires’ set in Myanmar, is screening in the international competition of IDFA.
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NewsSquare Eyes adds Argentinian boarding school doc ‘The Delights’ to buzzy slate (exclusive)
The film is screening in the International Competition at IDFA this week,
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NewsMarco Bellocchio describes how ‘Marx Can Wait’ has brought his family back together
The documentary is screening in the Masters section of IDFA.
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NewsSergei Loznitsa talks new projects at IDFA, including latest dramatic feature (exclusive)
Ukrainian director has two films screeninig at IDFA including ‘Mr Landsbergis’ in competition.
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Reviews‘Journey To The Sun’: IDFA Review
Children are sent from a war-torn Austria to Portugal for sustenance in Susana de Sousa Dias’s immersive documentary
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Reviews‘Taamaden’: IDFA Review
Seydou Cisse’s economic migrants take a dangerous route from Mali to Valencia
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Reviews‘Day After….’: IDFA Review
Hop on the Rocket paddle-steamer from Dhaka to Khulna in Kamar Ahmad Simon’s seductive documentary
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Reviews‘Mr Landsbergis’: IDFA Review
Sergei Loznitsa compiles an exhaustive account of the struggle for Lithuania’s independence from the USSR
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Features“We cannot have another year like this,” say doc sales agents at IDFA
Cautious distributors, slimmed-down festivals and dwindling funders are cause for concern.
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NewsIDFA DocLab head on Facebook woes, the “messy metaverse” and how to make living as a VR filmmaker
DocLab is now in its 15th year.
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NewsGo2 Films add buzzy IDFA title ‘Housewitz’ to international sales slate
Oeke Hoogendijk’s film is premiering in the Envision competition.
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FeaturesOeke Hoogendijk explains how she convinced her agoraphobic mother to feature in ‘Housewitz’
The Dutch documentary director is debuting two very different films at IDFA.
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Reviews‘One Take Grace’: IDFA Review
Intimate, engaging portrait of South African actor-domestic worker Mothiba Grace Bapela
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Reviews‘Four Journeys’: IDFA Review (opening film)
Louis Hothothot turns the lens on his own childhood in this probingly autobiographical film
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FeaturesHow are producers making documentaries with real impact without preaching and turning off audiences?
Producers need to balance supporting a filmmaker’s vision while raising funding and finding an audience.